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RickB- Human, Artist, Fool.

Ynys Mon, UK.

The blog is called ten percent because of what Kurt Vonnegut wrote when remembering Susan Sontag - She was asked what she had learned from the Holocaust, and she said that 10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and that 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and that the remaining 80 percent could be moved in either direction.-

And I'm writing it because I need the therapy and I lust for world domination.

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Belén Fernández on The Honduran Pantomime

1 December, 2009 — RickB

The Virtual Observer had been advertised by the TSE as a way for the international community to witness Honduran democracy; as for non-virtual election observers, these included Israeli Ambassador to Guatemala and non-resident Ambassador to Honduras Eliyahu López and organizations such as the International Republican Institute, which in addition to supporting the 2002 coup against Hugo Chávez happens to have also cooperated in election-related projects in Venezuela and Nicaragua with Hagamos Democracia.

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“Few international observers travelled to Honduras for Sunday’s vote, but one group from the International Republican Institute, a US-based nonprofit organisation, said on Monday that they had witnessed “an election free of violence and overt acts of intimidation”.

In a statement, the institute called Sunday’s vote “credible and peaceful”.

Hi Kit, yes that is disappointing, a minutes googling could disabuse a journo of the ‘Institute’ as a credible actor. They are to coups in the US interest what hands are to a Muppet’s mouth movements. As RNN have called it -laundering a coup- captures it exactly and perhaps sets a dangerous new precedent for how imperialists will operate, slightly more subtle than a full on ‘Pinochet’ but all the better to manage favourable media coverage.